First lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna helped dozens of kids not fall asleep during a reading of their new book by allowing them past security.

The mother and daughter co-authors were about to read their “Read All About It!” — about a boy who initially doesn’t like to read books until strange visitors gain his attention — when they realized many of the children in their audience of about 300 were too far away to see the book’s pictures. Some were even losing interest.

So a bunch of kids were rounded up and led to the front of the stage inside the pitched tent where the authors sat — closer than the public usually gets to first family members.

“We might be in trouble with security, but we’re sure they’re safe,” Jenna said of the children. She took turns with her mother reading about a boy named Tyrone, who is bored with books until getting caught up in their stories.

The first lady — a former librarian and literacy advocate who helped bring the annual book fest to the National Mall — told the audience the book was inspired by one of her former students “and all those little boys who would rather do anything than listen to a story.”

Jenna, who also has worked as an elementary schoolteacher, said they “were so inspired by Tyrone and other kids like him that we decided we should write about what we know — and I think what we know are kids and books.”

Not everyone was happy with the mommy-daughter appearance. Jennifer Bloom, 42, of Virginia, said she was upset she and her two children never saw popular children’s book author and artist Jan Brett — who was scheduled to be in the same children’s pavilion area after the Bushes’ book reading — because of the first family’s security detail. She said she waited in line for hours along with many others.

“Security was not letting anyone in because they were concerned about the Bushes, which is understandable,” Bloom said. “The kids didn’t get in, we didn’t get in. … It was really a bummer.”

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